Promises on diversity and racial justice have proved easier to make than to keep

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The words "systemic racism" used not to be spoken on US companies' earnings calls. The murder of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white police officer last May, abruptly changed that, putting the phrase into the mouths of the country's top executives and forcing them to consider their part in a system they were now denouncing.